The production of seriousness [electronic resource] : the metaphysics of economic reason /
Gustafsson, C.author.
This book is about the roots of managerial rationality. A theoretical base, founded on the concept of 'memetics' is developed in order to explain human thinking and human reason as products of cultural evolution. Cultural change and development are explained by simple, value-driven memetic mechanisms like 'ritualization' and 'extremization'.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; 1 Truth and the Self-Evident; The bottomless swamp of social science; Scientists; The wall of self-evidence; Messages and the feeling of truth; 2 Practical Reason; Work and pleasure; Work as activity; A theory of instrumental action; Rational common sense; 3 The Elementary Forms of the Truth Experience; Will and animistic thinking; Totemic thinking; Magical thinking; Compelling reason; Particular reasoning; 4 The Relativistic Basis of Understanding; Nature and human reality; Culture; On genetics and memetics; Imitation and assimilation
5 The Structural Dynamics of Social ThinkingSocio-genetic dimensions of perception; Memetic dynamics; The inevitability of extremism; Production of value; Homo garrulus; 6 The Relativistic Perspective; Relativistic method; The collapse of modernism; Cartesian anxiety; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book is about the roots of managerial rationality. A theoretical base, founded on the concept of 'memetics' is developed in order to explain human thinking and human reason as products of cultural evolution. Cultural change and development are explained by simple, value-driven memetic mechanisms like 'ritualization' and 'extremization'.
Organization.
Planning.
Management.
Behavioral economics.
Sociology.
Personnel management.
Metaphysics.
Organization.
Management.
Behavioral/Experimental Economics.
Sociology, general.
Human Resource Management.
Metaphysics.